🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Current and comprehensive agriculture, market and development news in Zimbabwe.
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Climate
Rain-short Zimbabwe fights taboo against farming drought-hardy grain
Samuel Mudziwepasi lost his entire maize crop in the last farming season, when a drought ravaged much of Zimbabwe. Now…
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Climate
Satellite data brings farming advice to remote areas of Zimbabwe
Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the…
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Livestock
£7 million boost for Zimbabwe’s goat, pig farmers
Stakeholders in livestock production have welcomed the European Union’s £7,3 million support for livestock. Speaking at a stakeholders’ workshop in…
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Economy
Zimbabwe lifts ban on GM corn imports in bid to avert famine
Zimbabwe has quietly lifted a ban on imports of genetically modified corn for the first time in 12 years as…
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Crops
In Zimbabwe, a backyard hydroponic farm beats drought to grow vegetables
In a backyard in Zimbabwe’s capital, a 50-year-old mother of two is using hydroponics to grow vegetables for some of…
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Investing
Zimbabwe’s CBZ bank issues bonds under scheme to raise funds for maize, soy farming
Zimbabwe’s largest bank CBZ launched two bond issues on Monday, seeking to raise $80.6 million to finance maize and soybean…
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Crops
7,000 Tons of Tanzanian Corn Heading to Zimbabwe
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority is to transport 7,000 tons of corn from Tanzania to Zimbabwe as the southern African nation…
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Climate
Dought-hit Zimbabwe readies mass wildlife migration
Zimbabwe is planning an enforced mass migration of wildlife away from a park in the country’s south, where thousands of…
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